Meaning of assize | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Obsolete spelling of assize.
   Early, Modern, alt-of, obsolete
2. A session or inquiry made before a court or jury.
3. The verdict reached or pronouncement given by a panel of jurors.
4. An assembly of knights and other substantial men, with a bailiff or justice, in a certain place and at a certain time, for public business.
5. A statute or ordinance, especially one regulating weights and measures.
6. Anything fixed or reduced to a certainty in point of time, number, quantity, quality, weight, measure, etc.
7. A measure, dimension, or size.
   obsolete

Equivalents

Examples

“the assize of bread and other provisions”

“rent⟳ of assize”

“the Judgment of an Assize upon the whole”

“an hundred cubits high by just assize”

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